[Verse 1]
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In the mid-1960s, the news rang out clear,
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Pack your bags and your nets, you must get out of here;
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Take your picks and your shovels, your rakes and your hoes,
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The government says you must pack up and go.
[Verse 2]
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Well, the news it soon spread to the harbours and coves,
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That the young crowd were leaving in hordes and in droves;
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For to go to Toronto to follow their goals,
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Or to go to Placentia to live on the dole.
[Chorus]
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And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
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They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
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With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
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Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
[Verse 3]
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Now, Skipper Jim Pittman he said he wouldn't go,
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While there's nets to be mended and hay to be mowed;
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He said he'd never work, no matter the pay,
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In some hockey stick factory out Stephenville way.
[Chorus]
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And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
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They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
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With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
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Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
[Verse 4]
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Now, on all politicians they cursed and they swore,
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They rather would fight off in some distant war;
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For when they ceased to ramble and they ceased to roam,
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They'd like to return to a place they called home.
[Chorus]
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And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
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They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
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With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
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Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
[Verse 5]
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Now the islands and harbours and coves are ghost towns,
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You need a longliner to harvest the ground;
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And a big oil refinery now stands as a shrine,
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To the daughters and sons who remember the time.
[Chorus]
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And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
G D Em A
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
D G D
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
G D G D
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
[Chorus]
D G D
And it's out from St Leonard's and out from Toslow,
G D Em A
They'd steam 'cross the bay with their houses in tow;
D G D
With their beds in the bow and their stoves in the stern,
G D G D
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
[Outro]
G D G D
Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
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Bound away with their sons and their daughters.
